TSA Announces Award forScreening Partnership

TSA announced an award to
Comprehensive Security Services
Inc. and FirstLine Transportation
Security Inc. — a joint venture — to
provide screening services to four
Montana airports under the agency’s
Screening Partnership Program (SPP).

The total contract award value
for the four airports, including
options, is $28.6 million, TSA said.
If all options are exercised, the total
period of performance is 60 months,
which began June 1, 2014, and will
end May 31, 2019. Under SPP, TSA
managers at each airport will be
responsible for overseeing TSA
security standards and contractor
performance.

Eighteen airports nationwide now
participate in SPP, TSA said.

NextGen Status UpdateShows Areas of Progress

FAA has released a NextGen status
update that points out areas of
progress in the program, which
is designed to replace the current
system of ground-based air traffic
control with state-of-the-art,
satellite-based technology.

“Air carriers are saving precious
minutes and fuel and reducing
aircraft exhaust emissions by taking
advantage of more precise routing,”

Lambert-St. Louis International has transformed a vacant airline ticket counter area into
a high-profile lounge that includes new art, a live green wall, a water feature and a new
view from the terminal’s historic arched windows.

The Terminal 1 Ticketing Lounge is one of the final projects in Lambert’s extensive
renovation campaign, the Airport Experience Program. The lounge space, with red leather
seating, offers a respite for travelers who are going through the check-in process. The
lounge has two book-end walls that also offer inspiration to travelers and visitors. A live
green wall, featuring several species of plants, anchors one side; the other side features
a cascading water wall that amplifies an LED light show. To the south, the removal of
ticket counters opens up the 30-foot-high vaulted windows with a view of the entrance
roadway to the terminal and a new courtyard that features teak benches and a series of
planters with native Missouri birch trees. The airport is considering adding additional
art sculptures in the courtyard to complete the exterior space. The $70 million Airport
Experience Program began in 2008 and resulted in the airport’s largest interior makeover
in its history, with renovations to Terminal 1 and concourses A and C.